[E-devel] Compositor Waning

Jose R Rodriguez <[email protected]> Sat, 11 Jul 2026 22:36:08 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.window-managers.enlightenment.devel
Organization Metztli IT
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Niltze [Hello]-

I am still using reiser4 -enabled kernel 5.17.15-3 under Debian Trixie 
(which default kernel is 6.x.y). Everything was 'well and dandy' until 
yesterday that the following packages were upgraded:

mesa-vulkan-drivers_26.1.2-1~bpo13+1_amd64.deb
mesa-common-dev_26.1.2-1~bpo13+1_amd64.deb
mesa-libgallium_26.1.2-1~bpo13+1_amd64.deb
libegl-mesa0_26.1.2-1~bpo13+1_amd64.deb
libgbm1_26.1.2-1~bpo13+1_amd64.deb
libgbm-dev_26.1.2-1~bpo13+1_amd64.deb
libgl1-mesa-dri_26.1.2-1~bpo13+1_amd64.deb
libglx-mesa0_26.1.2-1~bpo13+1_amd64.deb

Upon a subsequent reboot and into E, I got the following message:

"Compositor Warning

Your display driver does not support OpenGL, GLSL shaders or no OpenGL 
engines were compiled or installed for Evas or Ecore-Evas. Falling back 
to software engine.

You will need an OpenGL 2.0 (or OpenGL ES 2.0) capable GPU to use OpenGL 
with compositing."

I rebuilt EFL, E, and Terminology, and reinstalled packages. I observed 
no change. Then...

Erroneously [!?] thinking that those Debian upgraded packages might have 
had an 'affinity' to Trixie default kernel 6.x.y, I proceeded to rebuild 
backported equivalents under my current kernel 5.17.15-3 reiser4 
environment.

I observed no change and got the same warning at the top.

Subsequently, I built *again* EFL and E, but this time with *all* my 
rebuilt mesa software components already replacing the Debian repository 
defaults installed, i.e.,

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(Tried twice but could not upload screenshot to Enlightenment.org with 
'Take Screenshot' menu)

No change still. Any insights would be appreciated.

-- 
Best Professional Regards.

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Jose R R
http://metztli.it
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